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nsubj:bfoc: nominal subject of a beneficiary-focused verb

In an analogy to nsubj:pass, nsubj:bfoc signals that the mapping between syntactic functions and semantic roles is non-standard. Specifically, the verb is in the beneficiary-focused Voice, hence the subject specifies a beneficiary rather than the agent.

Ipagaalis ng babae ng bigas sa sako ang bata . \n BP-FUT-take.out ACT woman OBJ rice DIR sack PIV child .
nsubj:bfoc(Ipagaalis, bata)
nsubj:bfoc(BP-FUT-take.out, child)

“A/the woman will take some rice out of a/the sack for the child.”


nsubj:bfoc in other languages: [tl]